Shyvana with Xerath
How to Synergize Shyvana and Xerath
based on 3,045 Shyvana with Xerath pairsHow We Analyze Champion Pairings in LoL
Shyvana Xerath Synergy Summary
Best Shyvana Xerath Synergy Build
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Guide to Synergizing Shyvana and Xerath
Tips for Playing as Shyvana with Xerath
Flame Breath is great to level-up against difficult lane opponents.
It can be valuable to purchase one of the items that can slow enemies: Frozen Mallet, Dead Man's Plate, or Entropy.
Shyvana's abilities all benefit from attacking units. As a result, Attack Speed items are more valuable on her than most champions.
Burnout is an ideal choice for jungling. Monsters will be hit by the full duration, and the speed boost improves her ganking potential.
Advice to Understand How Xerath Will Play
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
Shyvana Xerath Synergy Stats
How to Play with Xerath as Shyvana in LoL
The Shyvana Xerath synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of her gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Xerath, compared to her overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how her gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Shyvana sees a very large drop in her KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Xerath. His KDA went down from NaN to NaN. This negative change shows that Xerath helps Shyvana perform worse in ranked League rounds. Yet, the small difference shows that this performance change is only marginal.
When Shyvana tries to synergize with Xerath, she sees a little decrease in her full damage output. This difference could indicate that Xerath does not provide cover for her to deal more damage or that his support also helps extend the game's duration. Similarly, when Shyvana is played together with Xerath on the same team, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when she plays alone. This is contrasting evidence that she is worse when playing alongside Xerath.
Additionally, when Shyvana plays with Xerath on the same team, she typically receives a little more damage than when she fights alone. Taking more damage could indicate that Xerath does a poor job of protecting Shyvana in team fights.
Synergies between Shyvana and Xerath
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Is Shyvana better when played alongside Xerath?
There is no one best companion for Shyvana that will always be her best synergy. However, overall, Xerath is a good teammate for Shyvana. By locking into the same team as Shyvana, he raises their win rate by 2.3% to 54.6%. This signals that there is a somewhat important synergy between Shyvana and Xerath that results in them performing stronger together than without each other.
Xerath has a much greater difficulty compared to Shyvana. That means Shyvana players need to be cautious when enlisting Xerath comrades to fight alongside, as they will have to have a much higher level of skill to do well with you.
Working alongside, you will likely see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to to do a lot of AP damage. Combined, these two are able to dish out a surprising amount of magic type damage.
Conversely, by pairing Shyvana and Xerath together, you may not be providing your side much crowd control. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this relative disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Xerath teammate, you need to focus on maximizing your income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you do this, you will do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To learn all of the intricacies of Shyvana in order to synergize with Xerath during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League rounds, you should continue reading to pick up some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The best items to use in your Shyvana and Xerath synergy build include Frostfire Gauntlet, Warmog's Armor, and Demonic Embrace. When Shyvana bought at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting alongside Xerath than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Shyvana boasted an average win rate of 54.6% when playing alongside Xerath with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing your oponents, Shyvana players should equip the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for this team composition, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 54.6% win rate overall.
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